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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Drown Even Gnawing May
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Every Grows Slavery Soil
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Ages Been Contest Executive
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Case Concerned Every Every Man
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Capital Energy Failure Frequently
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Always Defend God Grants
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger Argument Cool Keep
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Good Inspired Make Man
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Away Every Life Man
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Arising Changes Circumstances Often
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Ever God Important Individual
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Been Liberty People Regard
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Any His House Invention
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Among Diffusion Education Free
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

All Things Answered Ends Great
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Borne Constitution Country Destiny
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Associated Being Condition Creatures
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Great Great Ideas Ideas Muscles
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Good Imagination Invent Junk
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Accomplish Hell Here No Rules
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Great Great Idea Idea Lot
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Favor Friends Friendship Kings
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Close Did Failures Gave
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent Failure First Man
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Abandon Absolutely Appalled Brain
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Everything He Him Waits
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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